Desert Fishes Council
The mission of the Desert Fishes Council (DFC) is to preserve the biological
integrity of desert aquatic ecosystems and their associated life forms,
to hold symposia to report related research and management endeavors,
and to effect rapid dissemination of information concerning activities
of the Council and its members. http://www.desertfishes.org

TNHC (Texas Natural History
Collection) - North American Freshwater Fishes Index - Images, Maps, and
Information
This list is comprised of the entire list of North American Freshwater
Fishes of Mayden, R.L. et al. 1992 (with footnotes)
plus additional taxa listed by Williams, J.E. et al. (1989). Scientific
and common names follow Mayden et al., except
for some (mostly subspecies) found only in Williams et al. Only native
North American freshwater species are included here. Species described
subsequent to Mayden et al. 1992 will be added
as we obtain images or other information. For information on exotics
see the NBS Nonindigenous Fish Database.http://www.tmm.utexas.edu/tnhc/fish/na/naindex.html

AVIAN

About the Avian Literature Database
The Avian Literature Database is a bibliographic database of documents
on the effects of wind energy development and towers, power lines and
other wires, on birds. The effects on birds include mortality factors
such as collision and electrocution and impacts on nesting, foraging,
roosting/loafing and other forms of bird disturbanceshttp://www.nrel.gov/wind/pubs.html

North American Cowbird Advisory Council | Introduction1) a central source of information (bibliography) on cowbird
ecology and management, (2) information on effective means of cowbird
control...cowbird.lscf.ucsb.edu/intro/intro.html

AVIATION MANAGEMENTAM is responsible for Interior's aviation safety program. Through
this leadership, AM provides centralized technical and administrative
services to all Interior organizations and, through individual agreements,
to other federal and state entities.http://amd.nbc.gov/

GeneralLand Office RecordsWe provide live database access to Federal land conveyance
records for the Public Land States. Image access is provided
to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land
States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Images of Serial patents, issued between
1908 and the mid-1960's are currently being added
to this web site. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection,
this web site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued
for the listed states.http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

GeoCommunicator
The GeoCommunicator is a land management and land
records community-based portal of the Geography Network focused on communication,
data, and activities of interest to anyone involved in or interested in the
management of lands within the United States.http://www.geocommunicator.gov

National Riparian Service Team
Contains riparian and wetlands information. training materials, reference
materials, and case studies.http://www.or.blm.gov/nrst/

Planning and NEPA LibraryThe purpose of the Library is to provide a location
where BLM employees can quickly and easily find Planning & NEPA related
reference materials and examples of work products.http://web.blm.gov/nepa/

PublicLandOrdersPublicLand
Orders (PLO's) implement the authority granted to the Secretary of the Interior
by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to make, modify, extend,
or revoke land withdrawals.http://www.blm.gov/nhp/what/plo/index.html

Public Lands Foundation
The Public Land Foundation (PLF) is dedicated to the ecological stability
of the public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). PLF
is a national non-profit, all volunteer membership organization.http://www.publicland.org/

Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical Information (CISTI)
One of the world's major sources of information in all areas of science, technology,
engineering and medicine.http://cisti.nrc.gc.ca

CONTAMINANTS

Contaminant Exposure and Effects--Terrestrial Vertebrates
Database (CEETV) A compilation of exotoxicological
data derived from published literature, other databases, and unpublished reports.
This database can be searched by species, collection date, site coordinates,
estuary name, sample matrix, contaminant concentrations, biomarker and bioindicator
responses, and reference source. This database contains over
17,000 records with exposure and effects information on 250,000 individuals
representing more than 450 species residing in Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific coast estuaries, Alaska,
Hawaii, and the Great
Lakes.http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/contaminants-online/pages/CEETV/CEETVintro.htm

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Division of Environmental Contaminants national website including pesticides,
amphibian declines and deformities, habitat restoration, and "superfund"
site and oil spill cleanups.http://contaminants.fws.gov

COPYRIGHT

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purposes only. The Copyright Office bears NO responsibility for the quality
of information provided through other sites and computer systems. Providing
a link to these other sites should not be construed as an endorsement or approval
by the Copyright Office of these organizations or of the positions they may
take on various issues.

AVIATION MANAGEMENTAM is responsible for Interior's aviation safety program. Through
this leadership, AM provides centralized technical and administrative services
to all Interior organizations and, through individual agreements, to other
federal and state entities.http://www.doioig.gov/

Comptroller General
Contains decisions made by the Comptroller General in the areas of Federal
law such as: appropriations; bid protests; civilian or military personnel
pay and allowances; household goods and freight loss damage; transportation
rates etc.http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaodecisions/index.html

GAO Comptroller Decisions
GAO Comptroller General Decisions contains decisions and opinions issued by
the Comptroller General in areas of Federal law such as appropriations, bid
protests, and Federal agency rulemaking. The database is updated within two
business days after decisions have been released. Documents are available
as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) fileshttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaodecisions/

GAO Reports: Main Page
The GAO Reports application contains reports (“blue books”) on
audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs conducted
by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). All published reports,
testimonies, correspondence, and special publications are included. Products
that are restricted or classified are not included. The current fiscal year’s
database is updated within two business days of a report’s release.
Reports are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
files. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/index.html

Interior Departmental Manual (Chapters)
Permanent policy documents approved by the Secretary or the Assistant Secretary
- Policy, Management and Budget. These include organization descriptions;
delegations of authority; and policies, procedures, and standards for administrative,
legal, legislative, informational and program activities of the Department.
ELIPS contains the current chapters as well as a limited number of previously
approved versions of the chapter. Earlier versions of the chapters as well
as obsolete chapters are contained in the system's archived files.http://elips.doi.gov/app_home/index.cfm?fuseaction=home

Interior SECRETARY's ORDERS
Temporary or interim policies approved by the Secretary that expire after
a specified period of time or that are converted to the Departmental Manual.
ELIPS also contains all current and expired Secretary's Orders dating as far
back as 1992.http://elips.doi.gov/app_home/index.cfm?fuseaction=home

Office of Inspector General Reports of the Department
of the Interior
OIG Reports are in electronic format from 1995--to presenthttp://www.doioig.gov/

Public Land Orders
Public Land Orders (PLO's) implement the authority
granted to the Secretary of the Interior by the Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976 to make, modify, extend, or revoke land withdrawals.http://www.blm.gov/nhp/what/plo/index.html

Public Laws--Thomas via Library of Congress provides:
Pubic Laws/Bills in text format from the 94th Congress to present; information
on Bill Summary and Status; Committee, Senate and House of Representative
Reports as well as the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD in text formathttp://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html

United
States Code
The Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives
prepares and publishes the United States CodeThe Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter
of the general and permanent laws of the
United States .http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

United
States Code Classification Tables NEW
These tables show where recently enacted laws will appear in the United States
Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those laws. The tables
sorted in Public Law order may be used to identify the sections of the Code
affected by a particular law. The tables sorted in Code order may be used
to determine whether a particular section of the Code has recently been amended.
The tables only include those provisions of law that have been classified
to the Code. The text of recently enacted laws may be found through the Library
of Congress Thomas web site.http://uscode.house.gov/classification/tables.shtml

U.S.
Courts
Contains information about the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Courts, U.S.
Court of Appeals, and U.S. Bankruptcy Courtshttp://www.uscourts.gov/

Forest History Society
The INVADERS Database is a comprehensive database of exotic plant names and
weed distribution records for five states in the northwestern United States.
The spatial and temporal spread of weeds can be displayed using the historic
distribution records in INVADERS. The INVADERS web site contains actual examples
of how land management and weed regulatory agencies are using these data to
improve their weed management programs. Noxious weed listings are provided
for all US states and six southern tier Canadian provinces. The Forest
History Society presently has three databases that can be searched on this
site:

A bibliography containing annotated
descriptions of over 34,000 books, articles, and dissertations on topics in
the fields of forest, conservation, and environmental history.
A guide to archival collections in the fields of forest,
conservation, and environmental history that are housed in over 450 repositories
across North America and throughout the world.
A catalog of the holdings of the U.S. Forest Service Headquarters
History Collection housed at the Forest History Society.
A catalog of a special collection of nearly 400 twentieth-century
novels documenting Forests in Fiction.
A specialized bibliography on vegetation change in South
and Southeast Asia.http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/databases.html

Forest Health Monitoring (FHM)
Data from 1990 to 1998 are available in various forms: the data itself (through
1997), regional highlights for 1998, regional summaries,
and fact sheets.http://www.fhm.fs.fed.us

USDA Forest Service Forest
Inventory and Analysis (FIA)
This site links to all other online resources sponsored by this national program,
including databases, documents for downloading, and the sites for the five
regional offices.http://fia.fs.fed.us/

AGI Earth Science World Image Bank
Provides quality geoscience images on-line to the
public, educators, and the geoscience community
at no cost. The USGS, NOAA, and NASA are just three examples of some present
contributors.http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/

BATS
Fish and Wildlife site providing introduction to bats plus links to information
on several endangered and threatened bats and bat conservation organizations.http://endangered.fws.gov/bats/bats.htm

MAPS

BLM
NSTC Mapping Standards - International Symbols
The National Science and Technology Center (NSTC) of the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) is ... The BLM symbols were NSTC-specific recreational and cultural
...http://www.blm.gov/nstc/mapstandards/intlsym.html

NATIVE PLANT NETWORK
The Native Plant Network is devoted to the sharing of information on how to
propagate native plants. Feel free to search the database for species you
have interest in, and please take the time to upload protocols of species
you successfully grow. You will receive full credit for your entry and have
the opportunity to add your company logo to the protocol. If you would like
to share some propagation techniques, entry is easy using the Protocol Interface. http://nativeplants.for.uidaho.edu/network/search.asp

PLANTS DatabaseDescription: Online USDA database of information, images,
and links on plants in the USA, including crops and invasive...http://plants.usda.gov/

Wildland Shrubs of the United States and its Territories:
Thamnic Descriptions
Thamnic (Greek for 'shrubs') descriptions of more than 250 native and introduced
shrubs, including a general description of the species and information about
its range, ecology, ecological and cultural benefits (and, in some cases,
detriments), reproduction, management considerations, and bibliography.http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/wildland_shrubs.htm

VASCULAR PLANT TYPE CATALOG
8/2000 "The New York Botanical Garden is in the process of cataloging
its approximately 90,000 vascular plant type specimens. Currently, 75,409
specimens of vascular plant families are available for searching. More recently
we have begun photographing the vascular plant type specimens."http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/

RECREATION

Produced by South Carolina's State Trails Program. Contains
information on promoting trail use, management, and development.http://www.sctrails.net

Federal Remediation Technology
Roundtable
An online guide which allows Remedial Project Managers
to compare remediation technologies and decide on the best cleanup solutions
for their sites.http://www.frtr.gov/

National Soil Survey Center
USDA - Natural Resources Conservation ServiceThe National Soil Survey Center is the
technical arm of the soil survey program in the United States and is dedicated
to providing state-of-the-art soil survey technology, standards, data, and
expertise to the American public.http://soils.usda.gov/

Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE)With additional research, experiments, data, and
resources become available, research scientists continue to improve USLE,
which led to the development of Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE).
RUSLE has the same formula asUSLE,
but has several improvements in determining factors. These include somenew and revised isoerodent maps; a time-varying approach for soil erodibilityfactor; a subfactor approach for evaluating the cover-management factor;
a newequation to reflect slope
length and steepness; and new conservation-practicevalues (Renard, et al., 1997). A new Agriculture Handbook (No. 703)
whichdescribes RUSLE in great
detail was published in 1997 by the U.S. Department ofAgriculture.http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/RUSLE.html

The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE)
This website is the official USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) site
for RUSLE. A copy of the current version of RUSLE, version 1.06b (Jan. 19,
2001), and associated data files can be downloaded from this site. Information
is also provided on how to access RUSLE documentation, application guides
for RUSLE, and help contacts. The current 1.06b version contains a calculation
change for the soil moisture (SM) subfactor of the cover-management (C) factor.
This change brings the SM calculation in line with that in the upcoming release
of RUSLE 2. http://www.iwr.msu.edu/rusle/

Endangered Species Recovery Plans Final and Revised Recovery Plans Available Online
Recovery plans are listed in descending order by
year, month and day of their signing by FWS Regional Directors. Species covered
in the plan are listed after the citation.http://endangered.fws.gov/recovery/index.html#plans

Northwest Interagency Endangered Species Act (ESA) Website
Website of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA-Fisheries, Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), and US Forest Service, dedicated to the information on the
Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Streamlined Consultation Efforts.This website
contains Section 7 of ESA documents, important references and links, and other
materials of use to biologists, botanists, managers and others working with
the Streamlined Consultation process and the Endangered Species Act.http://www.or.blm.gov/esa/index.htm

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website
containing the National Wetlands Inventory, which classifies and maps America’s
remaining wetland resources.http://www.nwi.fws.gov

The WetlandsRegulationCenter is presented by Environmental Technical Services Co. as a service to all persons
interested in the laws, policies and regulations concerning activities regulated
under Section 401 and 404 of the Clean Water Act in waters of the United States, including
wetlands.http://www.wetlands.com/

Effects of Recreation on Rocky
Mountain Wildlife
Developed by the Montana Chapter of the Wildlife Society (MCTWS), a professional
society of wildlife biologists whose goal is the scientific management of
Montana’s wildlife resources and their habitats. The primary purpose of this
bibliography is to provide resource users, managers, and decision-makers with
access to the best available scientific information about the effects of recreation
on wildlife to foster good stewardship of Montana’s wildlife resources for
current and future generations.http://nris.state.mt.us/apps/wildlifebib/wildlifebib.htm

Potential Impacts of Proposed
Oil and Gas Development on the Arctic Refuge's Coastal Plain: Historical Overview
and Issues of Concern Includes bibliography.http://arctic.fws.gov/issues1.htm

Utility and Vulnerability Ranking
Program. A new tool that has been created to assist decision makers in risk
assessments. Two sets of indices have been developed to rank terrestrial
vertebrates for their utility in biomonitoring and susceptibility to persistent
organic pollutants, cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides, petroleum crude
oil, mercury, and lead shot.http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/contaminants-online/pages/RankingProgram/RPintro.htm